An Old Lady in Great Shape

There’s something about old cars that asks you to listen before you look. You don’t photograph them—you make their acquaintance.

This shot was taken inside an Alfa Romeo Giulia. She’s a machine from another time, but she doesn’t wear her age like a burden. The patina on the steering wheel, the soft wear on the dashboard controls, the dusty glow on the gauges—they don’t speak of decay, but of use. Of stories lived in full throttle and long idles.

I didn’t stage this frame. I simply opened the door and saw her waiting there in quiet elegance. The light slipped through the glass just enough to kiss the rim of the wheel and glint off the instrument cluster. It felt like I was borrowing a memory that didn’t belong to me.

Shot on colour negative film, this frame holds grain the way the Giulia holds the road—with character. No filters. No distractions. Just the stillness of a machine built when lines were drawn with feeling, not software.

There are faster cars. Louder ones too. But few speak so softly and still get heard.